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Driving in Finland

The licence plates you will see on the road in Finland, how to read them, and what a car from abroad needs.

FINLAND5080120

Speed limits

Default limits for cars, unless signs say otherwise, as on the signs at border crossings.

In towns
50 km/h
Outside towns
80 km/h
Motorways
120 km/h

Motorways are often limited to 100 km/h in winter.

Before you drive

Vignette and tolls
There is no vignette, and there are no toll roads or toll bridges; roads are paid for from taxes.

Rules and prices change. Check the official site before you travel.

FIN

Country code

Cars registered here show the country code FIN. Plates carry it on the blue EU band, which counts as the country sign: no separate oval sticker is needed in the European Economic Area, and the plate is also valid in other countries of the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic. A car from abroad shows its own country code at the rear in the same way.

Reading the plates

Plates carry no regional code, so the letters and numbers do not tell where a car is from.

Plates you will see

  • ABC-123

    Standard · Since 1972

Older plates still on the road

  • ABC-12

    Standard · 1960–1972

Plate formats and history of Finland

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